OUR TERRIBLY UPSIDE-DOWN & BACKWARDS WORLD OF FLESH!
"I will love thee, O Lord, my strength. 2) The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. 3) I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies. 4) The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. 5) The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me. 6) In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears. 7) Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth. . . . . . 30) As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the Lord is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him. 31) For who is God save the Lord? or who is a rock save our God? 32) It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect. 33) He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places. 34) He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms. 35) Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great. 36) Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip. 37) I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed. 38) I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet. 39) For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me." {Psalm 18:1-7 & 30-39}
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Normally, I try to use shorter groups of Scripture. But Psalm 18 is so exquisite in showing God’s Love and Mercy, as well as His Strength. And, without question, He is all of these, as are we!
Plus, personally, I think our Heavenly Father is funny! I mean, He has the most extraordinary sense of humour! The way He Reveals things just takes my breath away, because it is always so directly to the point, and I am able to see it immediately!
So, on December 4th, four days ago, as I was pulling my laptop up to use, I looked down to see what I always see... but yet, had somehow never seen: the Dell logo on the lid was upside down, and backwards to me! The message was clear. And the thought that I immediately had is the one I was meant to write about: that, currently, our world is upside down... and backwards.
This morning, on a friend’s Fb page, I saw the 2nd photo I share above. And I thought, 'Dear God Almighty! HOW DO I REACH AMERICA??? HOW DO I REACH ANYONE TO HELP THEM UNDERSTAND AND GROW???' And all I know is that, every time, He takes me back to His Word.
Before I go further to share what I need to here, for those of you who do not know me personally, I was born a very, very shy soul. I’m not certain I was supposed to be, or even if that was actually my natural Spiritual leaning. Nevertheless, I am still painfully shy, and work every day to remind myself that people don’t bite, and that I have a right to be here!
I do know, a great deal of this was the over-protection from our mother. But I understand why she was so. So, it is up to me to forge ahead and be who I AM, who I have always been, and will always be, in Christ! And my greatest strength always shows itself in crisis times, with a boldness that shocks even myself! And somehow, that Strength really exploded in the face of America’s current demise.
But one of the greatest Blessings I could have ever had, came in the form of a dear Christian woman who, years ago, came into the school rooms to give us children Bible study! Her name was Frances McKinley, and she was a dear! With only a felt board and little felt figures, she brought the Bible to LIFE with the rOAr of her quiet but commanding voice!
And lest anyone say, "Oh God! She brainwashed you children into that garbage!" ... too late! I’d already been reading Scriptures since I was 6 years old! So by 10, I KNEW my God!
But the great thing about her teaching was that, it reinforced the Knowledge that God, in the form of Christ, was NOT a "woose"! That, The Christ was anything BUT a weak, sniveling, shadow of a man! For one thing, "carpenter" for Him, meant He was a stone cutter!
Jerusalem is not a city of wood frame homes when you look at the photos, or have been there. She is built of stones from quarries! So Jesus had to be strong, physically! For another, He started immediately "being about" His "Father’s business", so He was fully armed -Spiritually! And, He had to be strong in the Spirit -because He chose the time and the manner of His own "death" to show us that we don’t die!!! He was a MIGHTY SOLDIER in every sense of those words!
Yet, the churches rarely sing, "Onward Christian Soldiers" any more. We never hear the talk of how we are to "put on the armour of God" ¹, nor about how that to "be in Him" means that we have a "SOUND MIND" ²! Yet, all these things are Scriptural!
Instead, today, as our lives and our nation is being taken over by the evil of demonic forces within our nation, the bulk of the talk is, "Oh goodie! The Lord is getting ready to return! He will take care of us!" But I tell you AGAIN: THE CHRIST IS [NOT] COMING TO RESCUE US! HE ALREADY CAME AND HAS DONE WHAT HE WAS CALLED TO DO! NOW HE WAITS FOR US TO PICK UP OUR OWN CROSSES AND FOLLOW AFTER HIM!!!
WHY IS THIS SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND?
It is such a simple matter! We messed America up! WE get to fix America! He is not going to do that, nor is He going to take us out of our mess! If He would, like children, we would learn NOTHING! And OUR LIVES HERE ARE ABOUT GROWING UP IN OUR SPIRIT!!!
This does NOT mean that we get to be vile, spit in someone’s face, rage at them, commit (God forbid!) murder, or even think thoughts of hate! But because this is America, it DOES mean:
- Standing up, and Strong, for our Rights as Guaranteed by OUR Constitution!
- Standing Strong for FREE SPEECH!
- Standing Strong for the Right of FREE CHOICE FOR OUR OWN BODIES, AND THAT OF OUR CHILDREN!
- Standing Strong, and taking back OUR Heritage in that it is, "WE THE PEOPLE" who GOVERN OUR LEADERS ... NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND! (Our CHOSEN leaders are there only to PROTECT the individual states in which we live, and our RIGHTS to free speech and OUR PREEMINENT GOVERNING OF THIS GREAT LAND!!!)
- Standing up, and Strong, for the rights of the jobs we came here to do, or create, so that no one goes without, if we can help it! (and that does NOT mean 50 -75% of the country living off of welfare by choice!)
AMERICA!!! GET YOURSELVES UP AND BACK TO WORK!!! THAT IS YOUR GIFT TO GOD, YOURSELF, YOUR FAMILY, AND TO THIS GREAT REPUBLIC!
I continue to hear people all around me saying how "afraid" they are. And in that focus on the fear (False Evidence Appearing Real) they await some magic carpet to come sweep them away! Maybe that’s the difference between the world I am still seeing 22 months after the lie of the pandemic, which was brought forth to scare the stuffings out of America by politicians, determined to destroy America via that spoken manipulation. I HATE death! BUT: I am NOT afraid of it; and I’ve always told my Father that He will have to jerk my chain, or I’m not going! But I really am NOT afraid to lay down my life for this country!
The current photo circulating grieves me for how it is worded! "I’M NOT AFRAID TO DIE! I AM AFRAID TO LIVE ON MY KNEES IN A WORLD RUN BY LESSER MEN WHO CONTROL THE DESTINY OF MY CHILDREN!"
We are "afraid" of lesser men? Why? A nation who has fought for the rights of others will not fight for her own? I must ask again: WHY?
How much better for this poster to say, "I AM NOT AFRAID TO DIE! SO I WILL BOW MY KNEES ONLY TO MY CREATOR; AND ONCE MORE FILLED WITH GOD’S STRENGTH, I WILL RISE AGAIN AND I WILL TAKE BACK -AND CONTROL- THE DESTINY OF MY OWN FAMILY, CHILDREN, AND MY COUNTRY!"
AMERICA!
WAKE UP!!!
IT’S NOW BEEN 22 MONTHS!
YOU SLEEP TOO LONG!
-Diana Lynn Tritch
[ ] Brackets, if used, for emphasis as are CAPS.
Photo(s): Courtesy of/from making the rounds on Fb in the past 3 years.
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¹ "Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes." {Ephesians 6:10-11, NIV}
² "God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind."{2 Timothy 1:7, NKJV}
